*Sheiks, aristocrats, and pop stars are the target demographic for those cars.* Funny that all of those people will dump those cars once autonomous electric cars have 5 minute charging.
I like how someone at Cadillac woke up one day and said "hey, there's no Pontiac anymore, let's build one!" Way too many years ago this would have been a GTO.
Umm, they were selling the first gen CTS-Vs (2004-2007ish) at the same time Pontiac was selling GTOs and G8 V8s (2003-2006ish) so there was overlap of the models. CTS-Vs weren't in the same market space.
Come on Cadillac why don’t you gift this car to Sarah!!! Think of the incredible positive publicity! The awesome publicity would more than pay for the car!😳👍❤️
@@1957kwick Like they can’t afford it?????? Look at how much money they spend on advertising with commercials on TV every day of the year lol… Anyways it doesn’t hurt to ask….😝👍
BASEMENT FLOODING!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I dont know if I interpreted that right but if I did that is the funniest, most awesome thing I have ever heard a woman say!!!
This is the car that should have become the Holden Commodore once Holden stopped local production in Australia. Instead we got the front wheel drive Opel Insignia which no where near deserves the Commodore namesake. What a great car you have over there.
You need some kind of swingometer, to measure the angle of hair swing towards the horizontal during break testing. This would be the only true scientific way to show brake efficiency!
I 100% agree with you about the 6 speed. I sold my 2019 Challenger Hellcat because it was an automatic. Fast yes, boring yes. My new Camaro has the 6 speed and so much more intuitive, and I do not have to worry about coming into a corner hot.
@@Carl_Jr , how do you know it is not part of the script? They actually script cuss words in movies. RU-vid influencers are a marketing team's wet dream! Cost way less than an advertising campaign, and people think they are being genuine. LOL!
@@Carl_Jr , what you call dumb, I call enlightenment to the marketing psychology intended to part you and your money. If you are looking to buy a car like this, I sure hope you already have a couple million in investments instead of “I think I can make the payments if I don’t save for retirement “. LOL!
Hi from Ukraine - I love that you're wearing Ukraine national colours (even though it wasn't mentioned in the vid), love the car, love your review of the car, and appreciate the time watching to take my mind of other things. Thank you.
As an owner of Audi models with naturally aspirated and supercharged V8 power plants...let me give a sincere & genuine "Shout Out" to Cadillac for putting this really great 2022 CT5 out. There really are folks around who still like the "vroom vroom".....and there's NOTHING that the current outfit in Washington D.C can do about that......NO MATTER HOW PERSONALLY AROUSED THEY ARE AT WHAT THEY'VE DONE TO THE PRICE OF GASOLINE.
This has been one of my “if money was no object” cars I would buy in a minute. I love this car. And yes, a manual will always be way more fun to drive than any automatic ever.
Hello Sarah 🤚. At some part of the video the words “basement flooding” flashed across the screen. ??? I thought to myself, what... Does this mean some lower location is getting all what? I’m just trying to pick up what your putting down. If I’m right then hilarious! Or am I way off? Lol. Great video👍
The thing that grinds my gears about GM is that when John Moss was director of product development, there were some killer concept vehicles that were greenlit by GM. However the brass watered the final products down so much that they were unrecognizable and disappointing. Now that they’re getting things right, they’re going away.
No not really. Leaving ICE behind - slowly. But all the great things they've learned about chassis dynamics, steering feel, brakes, etc.. still continues forward. Might just be some years before we have optimal battery density to weight trade-off before a true Blackwing EV can hit the road which is fine by me, I'll just enjoy ICE performance longer.
Or they're not being produced. Ordered one last year and Caddy/GM won't send allocation to the dealer. ..."but muh c19...muh supply chain...". Nobody cares about excuses GM. If you promote a product, effing sell that shit or piss off!
I'm just gonna say it- I think we are in a modern golden age of the internal combustion engine. Some of these cars will be preserved and considered great classics in 50 years. Cars might self drive for the work commute and to the grocery store, but people of the means will love owning, collecting, and driving these cars in the future.
I don’t understand why everyone keeps saying gas powered cars are a thing of the past when we aren’t investing in our failing electrical grids or the lack of renewable energy to sustain grids to power these vehicles cheaply.
Europe has outlawed the sale of new internal combustion engine (ICE) cars starting in 2035. California, the largest market for cars in the US, has done likewise. Automobile manufacturers are not designing new internal combustion engines. The Porsche Boxter and Cayman will no longer be ICE cars after this generation, but electric. FYI, the "ultimate" Cayman, the Cayman GT3 RS, is selling for up to *double* Its not insubstantial MSRP, as gasoline engines are going away. The current generation of Cadillacs is the last generation of their ICE sedans. They've said so. Internal combustion engine cars are not being outlawed, just the sale of new ones. It will be 15 or more years before they're mostly gone, so after 2050. Cars were originally a plaything of the rich, and there were gasoline powered cars before there were gasoline stations around the country. Modern EVs started off as play things for the rich. They are slowly moving down market, like the original ICE cars, and the EV charging network is beginning to be built out. The gasoline supply system was demand driven and built for profit, as I imagine the EV system will, perhaps w/tax breaks like the petroleum industry. This has happened before. Before ICE cars, there were horses. Transportation for "everyman." There still are, but now they're mostly playthings for the rich, as will ICE cars, transpotation for "everyman," be in 50 or 75 years.
The fact that it ain't one of the earlier model Australian HSV V8''s. Not only are HSV's aesthetically much cooler looking, they were also track proven and possibly still performed better than this more luxurious US V8. I'm a New Zealander
I'm stunned. Someone made a V8, rear wheel drive car with a manual gearbox. I thought it was all over but no! The engineering looks like perfection. The whole thing is almost orgasmic. I'm not saying any more......
Makes me sad to know that these could be among the last cars that can truly stir your soul. No electric car has ever done that. Let’s enjoy these while we can (and keep them running as long as possible too)
@@carguy7243 I wish I could say that. Unfortunately I cannot. To be fair though the ones I did sell were at the losing end of a battle with cancer (rust) Pennsylvania salt SUUUUUCKS!!!
Imagine if it was reversed. Then I would imagine you would say nothing stirs the soul like electric. It's so obvious that people love things because it's tied to other core memories that have nothing to do with said thing. Some people like the smell of crappy cologne because it's what their father wore blah blah. Get over it. You'll be long dead before gas powered cars get overtaken by electric. I think nothing stirs the soul like steam.
That hollow rear sway bar does save a lot of weight but they don't work as good as a solid bar. I would not be surprised if the front sway bar is hollow to. My 13 Impala had a hollow front sway bar and my biggest complaint was how the car cornered. So I replaced it with a solid bar and it made all the difference in the world in cornering. Much much better. I am surprised this has a 29 mm sway bar being a 4100 lb car. My Impala has a 31mm bar and it's 3600 lb.
My miserable day full of hard work, early start 4.45 am. Just got a ray of sunshine. A Sarah review. You work so hard on your videos. I woppa appreciate it. ❤
I've liked Cadillac since they came out with the CTS-V and this car is a beautiful evolution! Great review and awesome car! I want one! Oh and the reviewer is cute as a button too :)
9:36 Actually that would be the LT6. The LT5 is a futher souped up LT4 in the C7 ZR1 (the LT5 was just discontinued by GM). The LT6 is the second non ls engine in modern corvettes (the other is a rebadged c6 the cadillac xlr with a Northstar V8).
This is an analog car for the digital age. I don't mean to say it's old-fashioned, but that the designers seem to have paid great attention to how everything looks, sounds and feels to actual humans instead of focusing all the engineering on making it behave like a robot. While there are electric cars that can accelerate quicker, I don't see how any of them can provide the same visceral enjoyment under power as this. Plus those pops and crackles on over-run. You are right about this being an end of an era, as Cadillac has stated there will be no more all-new ICE powered cars. I don't think that means there won't be any updates to this, the CT4 and their other vehicles, but no major changes like a new engine or major changes to the chassis. I do hope they keep the manual until the end, unlike the Corvette!
@@Carl_Jr I understand it’s often difficult to read between the lines with text (compared with speech) but I honestly believed that the commenter believes it’s not a modern digital car, Be interesting to hear their POV ?
Early Friday upload… Yay! “Accoutrements!” As Gomez told Morticia… “I love it when you speak French!” That car is amazing. How would you compare the performance with that 6-speed Chevy SS you reviewed a few years back? Thank you for another great review! 👍👍👍
OMG Sarah...another FIVE. You hardly ever do that. But your review shows that this car is worthy of your ratings. Who would have ever thought that Cadillac would build a hot rod with a blown engine and a stick shift? Ahhh...the world we live in. Keep up the great work.
As always great review Sarah!! Love the CT4 & 5 Blackwing but my dream machine is the CT6 Blackwing! Now if only I could find one... Currently driving a CT6 3.0TT 404hp, it's not a "V" but it's quick, Real Quick!
Great review Sarah. I took delivery of mine about a month ago. However, I did go with the automatic........ No regrets with that decision but I understand the appeal of the 6sp. I'm just not into shifting anymore. It's definitely an incredible automobile. I'm so disappointed Cadillac is gonna go all electric. Maybe that will change??? Also, btw what a cute outfit too!
It’s a crying shame that this car and cars like it are in fact, the last we’ll ever see rolling off any assembly line. Not to mention GM deciding to pull the plug on the C8 Zo6. My heart actually hurts and and a hole will remain in it forever more 😕
Having an auto V2 and knowing that CT5VBlackwind has the tremec 6060... agree you are correct. Manual IS the correct choice. I like my auto but would have went manual if I ran across one while buying. Plus... faster is EV (sigh but will likely own one someday). Gas is now all about fun!
EVs being faster is a pretty small number. 99% of all EVs sold are slow or moderately quick. It is pretty hilarious the general public thinks any EV is some 9 second car - when in reality the vast majority of Teslas and "normal" EVs are 13-18 second cars in the quarter. I have knocked off many a non-plaid / non-ludicrous model Telsas at the drags strip in my basic modded SHO. You CTSV is quicker than just about any EV you will roll up on driving around town.
You have the beans score but I would like you to rate the rumble score. That almost indescribable feeling you get from just raw combustion based horse power. Not the torque or speed but almost sensing the power potential.
